Boot and shoe.



No. 887,846. PATENTED MAY 18, 1908.

' 'I'. J. REGAN.

BOOT AND SHOE.

APPLIUATION FILED DEO. 19. 1905.

v a Welte-d shoe embodyingniy invention.

UNITED sTATEs EATENT oEEicE.

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BOOT .AND SHOE Application filed December 19, 1905.

To all whom tt 'ma y renee/'11:

Be it known that. l, Tnouxs .1. Rimax, of Brockton, in the. county of Plymouth and State of i\'lassaehusetts, have invented eertain new 'and useful improvements in Boots l and Shoes, of which the following is a speeil iieation.

This invention has for its object to provide a boot or shoe wit-li an instep support located at the inner side of the interior of the shoe at l the shank portion thereof and 'forming a structural part of the shoe, the said supporter being therefore kept in its proper place without vliability of displacement.

The invention consists in the improvements which 1 will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of thel accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification:#Figure 1 represents a bottom plan view of the inner sole of Fig. l represents an edge view of the said inner sole. Fig. 3 represents a section on line Jn 3 0f Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents an enlarged seetion on line 4--4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a transverse -section representing the portions of the inner sole and its attachments shown in Fig. 4 in their ultimate relation to the upper, welt, and inner sole of a welted boot or shoe.

The saine letters of reference indicate the saine parts in all the figures.

My invention is embodied in a wetted boot or shoe having as a structural part thereof a laminated inner sole of which the layer l2 is or inay be of the usual form and construction of an inner sole of a welted shoe and provided with the usual lip 13 turned outwardly from the outer face of thc sole, and the usual channel 14 formed in the face of the sole for the. reception of the inseam. stitches.

1n carrying out iny invention I laterally extend and raise the inner edge of the layer 12, that isl the edge at the inner side of the wearers foot at the shank portion thereof, to form an instep support 15 rojecting outwardly and upwardly from tfie usual line o this portion-of the inner sole, the said instep sup ort being formed as a structural part of the ayer 12 and shoe and bearing against the inner side of the upper as shown in ig. 5.

The preferred construction whereby the instep support 15 is formed is as follows. Upon the upper surface of the layer 12 is superimposed a pad layer 16 preferably of Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 292,412.

llexible material sueli lt extending from the Patented May 19, 1908.

as sole leather, the layer heel port ion oll the layer 1; forwardly and terminating at a suitable point between the shank and loe portions,

its forward end heilig preferabl under the ball of the foot as indieat ed in Fig. I. tween the pad and the ISO..

body of the layer 12 is interposed a still'enei layer 17 which is preferably a strip or silient although rela such as steel.

'lhe end portions piece ol somewhat reti\'el stitl' sheet metal of the still'ener 17 may be secured by tacks 18 or otherwise, to the pad layer 1t andthe pad and sti'll'ene-r layers a the layer 1'. by means oll cement. of the still'ei'ier layer to or slightly outside shank portion Figs. 4- and 5 i'e preferabtv seeuied to Une edge is preferably extended of 'Flic extended portion of the still'enei layer is preferably as indicated in Figs. 4 and 1li is extended outwardly extended portion of projects upwardly as the shank portion of layer 12. The upwa given a slightly upward eurve 5. 'l`he pad layer l'roin the laterally the still'ener layer and well as outwardly from thelinner edge of the i'd projection oi inclination of the laterally .extended portion of the pad layer is due in part to the upward curve of the laterally extended portion of the stitlener layer and in part to the formation of the pad layer, the section of the latter being preferably as shown in Fig. 4, that is to say the pad layer is preferably made of gradually increasing hand edge shown in thickness from the left Fig. 4 to the laterally extended portion of the stil'ener layer sothat its upper surface, rises gradually from one edge to the opposite outer to the inner e( that is from the edge,

rlhe

lge of the sole.

outer edge of the laterally extended portion of the pad layer is upper surface of the angle. The instep beveled and meets the .pad layer. at an acute protector .15 thus formed is practically rigid at its base portion, while its upper edge is y somewhat flexible owing to fA the flexibility of the material 'of which the pad layer is composed.

29 represents another layer consisting of a casing piece which may be of any suitable thin exible leather, such as kid or goat skin,

this being applied to pad layer 16 and pad layer and outer surface of the si the upper surface of the bent over the edges of the layer 12 and conformed to the de portions of tlie lip 13.

The easing piece or layer 29 may be secured to thesurfaces on which it bears by cement. The edge portions of the easing piece 29 oonstitute outer layers of the liplB so that the operation of stitching the upper 19 and Welt 2() to\the layer 12 causes the inseam stitches Q1 to pass through the lip portions of the casing' piece as indicated in Eig. 5.

lt will be seen that by the described construction a laminated instep protector is incorporated into a boot or shoe as a struetural part thereof so that the supporter eannot become loosened or displaced Within the shoe.

l olaimz* 1. A welted shoe .having a laminated sole portion as a structural part thereof, Said sole portion comprising an inner-sole layer and a vflexible instep-supporting pad layer attaehed thereto, and a sti'll'ener interposed between said layers.

2. A Welted shoe having a laminated sole portion comprising an inner-sole layer and an instep-supporting pad layer superimposed thereon, and a flexible easing piece covering the top of the pad layer and eX- tended over the edges of the inner-sole layer and upon the channel lip.

3. An inner sole having a lip for' attachment to the upper and Welt of a Welted shoe, an instep-supporting extension at the inner edge of the shank portion, and a easing pieee Covering said extension, and having edge portions which are adapted to the lip of the inner sole. l

In testimonywhereof I have allixed my Signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

THOMAS J. REGAN.

Witnesses WALTER L. REED, JOHN F. ALLEN. 

